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“I thought: yes, Lila is right, the beauty of things is a trick, the sky is the throne of fear; I'm alive, now here, ten steps from the water, and it is not at all beautiful, it's terrifying; along this beach, the sea, the swarm of animal forms, I am part of the universal terror; at this moment I'm the infintisemal particle through which the fear of every thing becomes conscious of fear itself...”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“No, it was that Fillory was cruel, as cruel in its way as the real world was. There was no difference, though we all pretended there was. There was nothing fair about Fillory, just as there was nothing fair about people’s fathers going to war, and their mothers going mad, and the way we among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would. Fillory was no better than our world. It was just prettier.”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
“This is life, he kept saying to himself. That was being dead, and this is being alive. That was death, this is life. I will never confuse them again.”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
“I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“Once having set up her idols and built alters to them, it was inevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mallory’s 2025 Year in Books
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